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Re:El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour by noduerme on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:46AM (#40084590)
Sure. It's kind of a creek like the Los Angeles river. The point is that the city of Madrid is not built around rivers (like NYC or London or Prague).
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Re:El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour by kuu on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:15AM (#40085370)
I get your point, but that's not exactly the case. Madrid is built there not by coincidence, there are a lot of underground rivers that cross the region, but then the city was built on top of them.

See here: https://www-canaldeisabelsegunda-es.translate.goog/-/madrid-...

Original: https://www.canaldeisabelsegunda.es/-/madrid-la-ciudad-edifi...

And about ruins, they are, but they are also hidden: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muralla_cristiana_de_Madrid

:)

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Re:El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour by noduerme on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:53PM (#40164451)
Amazing! At Cava Baja 10 there's a remnant of the wall... and I never knew, I stay at the hotel across the street whenever I'm in Madrid and face that building.

Ironically, my comment about ruins, rivers, etc, I lifted from a sign in the lobby of that very hotel. And here they are sitting on top of it ;)

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